Varun Mahajan

I have primarily been into technical recruitments throughout my career, would like to see myself grow in the same field with exposure to different industries down the line.
Have been involved with setting the recruitment process right from scratch and making it process dependant rather than people dependant.
Worked with small as well as big teams.
Extensive experience in managing and leading recruitment teams in multi-location, high-volume, deadline-driven, cost-conscious environments.

7 Years of experience in IT industry - Specific to technical recruitments.
A good flair of technical skill and market intelligence to attract technical resources.
Well versed with Campus recruitments and successfully completed many campus drives across India.
Hands on experience in Sourcing and Recruiting people in different technologies/domains and across levels.
Strong people management and team building skills.
Wide variety of experience working with startups and CMM 5 companies
Worked extensively on Internet based recruiting tools and massive networking drives to generate leads of potential candidates. Significant exposure to Mass Recruitment (volume hiring).
A Thorough recruitment professional with experience on both lateral as well as campus hiring.

Strong organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
Excellent planning and execution skills coupled with ability to deliver in a high pressure environment.

Varun Mahajan’s Specialties:

Cost effective recruitments
Budget Planning and forecasting
Recruitment Strategies
Campus Recruitments
Volume/Bulk Hiring
Strong acumen for gathering and analysing market intelligence.
Internet Research and sourcing
Hiring and salary negotiations
Vendor Management
Branding
Manpower planning and forecasting
Team Management
Process improvement
Employee Relations
Employee Engagement
MIS Reporting
Training and Development
Client Management

Varun Mahajan’s Experience

Manager Recruitments

BrickRed Technologies

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (3 years )

Steering initiatives towards achievement of organizational goals with chief responsibilities pertaining to resourcing and recruitment.
Sr Executive

Headstrong (Earlier known as Techspan)

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — March 2007 (10 months)

I was primarily responsible for Hiriing resources for our Financial Services Division. Hired people with financial domain experience and experinece on distributed technologies. Was hiring for clients like-Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Bank Of America, Wachovia etc.. Hired people on Java/J2EE, .Net, documentum, C++, Unix etc. Got an experience to work on Investment Banking domain and to serve top 10 investment banks as customers.

Effectively managed and developed the database for optimum utilization and used all methodologies of sourcing like Headhunting, Networking, Employee Referrals, and Internet Sourcing for low cost hiring.
Technical Recruiter

Fidelity National Information Services

(Public Company; FIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 4 months)

Managing internal and external sourcing, pre-screening candidates, development and coordination of recruitment strategies, interviewing and selection/rejection of candidates. Responsible for identifying creative sourcing methods, networking, email scripts, databases, internet, referrals campaigns, third-party agencies, building long-term relationships with candidates.

Was responsible for hiring people at different levels namely, SE, SSE, Tech Leads, Project managers, Architects, Program Managers etc and for different technologies. HIred people primarily on Java/J2EE, .Net, C++, VC++, Symbian, PalmOS, Testing etc. Was responsible for conducting walkin interviews and campus hirings. Got an expeience to streamline the entire recruitment process.
Executive - Recruitments

MAH India

(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

June 2004 — November 2004 (6 months)

Effectively executed responsibilities including recruitment lifecycle, arranging walk-ins & interviews and head hunting & cold calling for specific skills based opportunities.
Actively involved in sourcing, pre-screening, conducting personal interviews, sourcing of profiles, head hunting the candidates as per the client requirement

Worked as a technical recruiter primarily responsible for hiring people on application as well as telecom domain.
Executive Recruitments

Kudos Technology Chandigarh

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

July 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 6 months)

Worked as a recruitment consultant and served different clients. primarily hired people on Java, VC++, C++, VB etc. Was handling couple of clients ranging from small to big companies. Also got an experience towards Non-IT hiring.

Effectively coordinated with the technical team, HR Managers & candidate for fixing appointment for the Technical and HR Interviews.
Played a key role in preparing new aptitude & technical tests with the help of technical team and involved in the maintenance of the database.

Varun Mahajan’s Education

Bharati Vidyapeeth

MBA , HR (Full Time course) , 2002 — 2004
Asset International

Diploma in E-Commerce , 2000 — 2001
Govt. Degree College Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh University

B.Com. , Accounting, Income Tax and Statistics , 1997 — 2000
Dalhousie Public School

1983 — 1995

Additional Information

Varun Mahajan’s Websites:

My Company

Varun Mahajan’s Interests:

Travelling, Trekking, Mountaineering, Going on long drives, River rafting, Para gliding. I am more interested towards outdoor.adventurous activities

Varun Mahajan’s Groups:

Techrecruiters

ECM BPM
Networked Recruiter (34,197+ total network) 3rd Largest Recruiting and HR & 2nd Largest Agency Group
Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
TakingITGlobal
HRinIndia
GLOBAL CONTRACTORS / RECRUITERS / PROCUREMENT
Technical Recruitment
Independent Recruiters
INDIA OUTSOURCING
Headstrong Alumni Network
Expertise for Hire
India Recruiter Network
Recruiting Professionals Network
Global Recruiting Alliance
Internet Recruiting
RecruitingBlogs
Internet Sourcers and Recruitment consultants
Google - eSearchers & Searcherlogists.
CV Sourcing Consultants & CV Sourcers.
Global Recruiters
IIM IIT FMS ISB XLRI SYM TISS DCE DIT BITS Only
Project Managers - Resource Pool
Leading International Open Networkers (LION)
Tech Recruiters - 5000+ Members
Network NCR
NIT (National Institute of Technology) Alumni
Innovative Recruitment Forum
Premium Headhunting Network
H.R. Professionals
HR Strategic Sourcing
Recruiters United
Technology Outsourcing– Professionals/ Software Developers/ Freelancers/ Programmers/ Entrepreneurs
APAC Recruiters
Big5Hire - Passive Recruiting Search Engine User group
Startup Network - North America
Human Resources Professionals Worldwide - www.HRProWorld.com
Bharati Vidyapeeth
Documentum Experts
Documentum Network
Referral Recruitment
India on Rails
BrickRedian
RS Consulting
Delhi/NCR HR Forum
Connects HR
BrickRed Technologies
Human Resource Jobs in India
HOSPITALITY SUPERSTARS (Employers, Recruiters & Hospitality Superstars) - http://www.hsuperstars.com
Second Foundation Alumni